Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Major HE Ellis was a SOE agent, serving with Z Special Unit, the raiding force arm of Special Operations Australia. He managed to escape from Singapore before it fell to the Japanese, but was lost on an insertion operation into Borneo, between 25-26 March 1945.

Harry had another nickname- Ben or Benny.

Extract from RAAF report - presentation of death of crew of Liberator aircraft A.72-101:

Liberator aircraft A.72-191 of No. 200 Squadron took off on an operational flight on 25th March 1945 and failed to return to its base.

The crew of the aircraft at the time of its loss comprised:
S/Ldr Harold Graham Pockley 260608 1st pilot
F/O Charles Ian Cox 415403 2nd pilot
F/Lt Leonard Francis Day 409672 Nav.
F/Lt David Preston Gradwell 8960 WAG
F/O Ronald Roy Farmer 412503 Air Gunner
439370 Sgt Eric Mileham Litchfield Air Gunner
444233 Sgt Robert Roland Hale Air Gunner
435733 Sgt Keith Mervyn Lor WAG
434346 Sgt Charles Kevin Ponting WAG
443698 Sgt Leslie Ernest Tonkin Bomb Aimer
28787 Sgt Kenneth Charles Wilmshurst Flt Engineer

Major HE Ellis (passenger).

Information submitted by B. Murphy in 2021

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Though listed as passenger, Major Ellis was in charge of training all Z Special personnel assigned to be inserted by 200 Flight and insisted on acting as the Jumpmaster on this first mission into Borneo. 200 Flight was a top secret special duties unit set up to insert and supply Z Special Unit personnel in the SW Pacific Theater from March 1945 to the end of WWII.

(Some amendments to passenger list names also supplied.)

Information from H Litchfield, April 2022